Sorry you feel that way!

Congratulations! It’s a right to have your own skin feel like home :)

I use “queer” in the reclaimed sense, but I appreciate that not everyone is OK with it. Saying that, I kind of prefer the initialism – LGBT – and don’t really see an issue with it myself.

Nothing to worry about whatsoever. My high school cohort and I ended up all over the world - some in countries with 3 year programmes, others in countries with 4 year programmes, others who dropped out or changed fields and started over.

I promise you that it does not matter. What matters is that you achieve your own goal of getting a bachelor’s, at your pace. :)

How sad it is to see the world as a Trump/Europe dichotomy.

Seriously, make this easier for yourself and just buy from anywhere that isn’t the USA or its golden child (Israel.)

Were you raised Muslim? (Not coming from a xenophobic PoV; I myself was raised Muslim)

Personally, I’m way less bothered by the use of the word sapphic by an AMAB person to describe themselves, as I am by equating that to “attraction to AFAB people…”

This both alienates trans women and invalidates AFAB people who are not women. Please use better terminology to describe what you mean. As a trans man in a relationship with a trans woman, that honestly gave me the ick.

I’ve been boycotting them for a while (BDS), but it’s good to see that more people are joining in.

I’d say this is different from a typical ‘transmasc’ experience.

i don’t really feel like a girl as a gender but i feel really good in a feminine body.

Sounds like you might be GNC female? Ultimately it’s up to you to decide what terminology is right for you, but as a trans guy myself, I personally really do not relate to loving/wanting to have a feminine body, if anything the thought is a little triggering. We’re not all the same though.

I feel left out, not even a spam bot wants me :(

This is so relatable that it hurts, actually.

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Not me so idk if this counts, but I got my gf a Steam Deck precisely so that she can daily drive it. We only used desktop mode in SteamOS to set up dual boot initially. Now it defaults into Ubuntu on boot for daily use. Gaming in SteamOS is the more occasional use case.

I’m using Memmy right now and honestly had no clue that it’s dead!

I am an atheist because I do not believe in god, not because I think that a god cannot exist. I am an atheist because the burden of proof is on those who claim that a god does exist. If such proof were to exist (and pass scientific scrutiny, not rely on faith), I would believe in a god.

I understand what you’re saying, but in reality, the definition of ‘atheist’ is a lot broader than you are asserting. Simply not having belief in a god to begin with is enough to be an atheist.

An atheist can, but does not necessarily, reject the notion of a higher power inherently.

If there is a god (or gods) then there is a god (or gods), and if there isn’t then there isn’t. There’s no reason to mull over something that has had no bearing on my life and if tomorrow we get irrefutable evidence for either side that’s when I’ll deal with that new reality. In the mean time there are better things to do.

Hugely relatable.

The “fixed” version also looks transmasc

??? Explain

I can read about 80% of the words in this if I’m honest, and had to fill in the rest with a best guess.

Cool :) thank you

Gotcha. Yes, I didn’t get to see the original comment.

I never, at any point, said that only sex mattered in medicine. I said they were distinct. I doubt it was your intention to do so, but you’re putting words in my mouth. Please don’t represent me.

TBF I did state quite explicitly that that was my own interpretation of your statement, not what you had literally said, because I couldn’t think what else you meant by that expression (possibly because of the missing context.)

I apologise for any hurt I have caused and will edit my previous comment, so as not to misconstrue yours.

showing that ‘male’ and ‘female’ are more akin to general groupings, with a degree of overlap, than any actual dichotomy

I totally agree.

Sex and gender are still entirely distinct when it comes to medical science, psychology, neuroscience, etc.

Not really. Binary trans people’s brains have been shown to more closely mirror the brains of people who were assigned their gender at birth, rather than the gender the trans person was assigned at birth. So trans women’s brains mirror those of cis women more closely than cis men, and vice versa for trans men.

Also, treating sex as the only one that is relevant in medicine is reductive and inaccurate. I appreciate that this might not be what you were trying to say (edit: it most certainly was not), but at the same time I am not sure what else you mean by “sex and gender are distinct in medical science”. Transition alters the body significantly and is medically relevant. As a trans guy, my voice, metabolism, hirsutism, and build/muscularity align with cis men much more closely than cis women for example.

I am not sure what you mean with psychology – why do you think sex and gender are distinct in psychology?